Re: Migration to version 7.4

Nabil Sayegh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> congratulations to the new release, I couldn't try it yet, but the release
> notes are promising.
>
> However there is one thing that needs a bit more explanation:
>
> 1) Inner joins using the explicit JOIN syntax may behave differently
> because they are now better optimized.
>
> What exactly do you mean by 'may behave differently'?

They will be fully optimized, so they might be faster.  In pre-7.4, ANSI
syntax restricted the choices researched by the optimizer.

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